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2020., Pre-adolescent, Viking Call No: HISTORICAL F BLA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work, Chernobyl, has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: FIC BLANKMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Relocating to Leningrad in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster, neighbors Valentina and Oksana, who have been taught to hate each other because of religious differences, uncover painful family secrets while learning what it means to trust another person.
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2021., Juvenile, Puffine Books Call No: FIC BLANKMAN Genre: Historical fiction Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.
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Ã2020., Pre-adolescent, Puffin Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?"--Amazon.com.
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Juvenile Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person. Oksana must face the lies her parents told her all her life. Valentina must keep her grandmother's secret, one that could put all their lives in danger. And both of them discover something they've wished for: a best friend. But how far would you go to save your best friend's life? Would you risk your own?
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2020., Juvenile, Thorndike Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: Large print edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Series Title: Thorndike Press large print striving readers collection.Summary Note: Sworn enemies and fifth-grade classmates, Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko are sent from their home in Pripyat, Ukraine, to live with Valentina's grandmother in Leningrad after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Oksana, whose abusive father perished in the accident and whose mother is hospitalized, resents being sent with Valentina, because she's been taught her whole life to hate Jews. Yet, after seeing the warm relationship between Valentina and her grandmother Rita, Oksana begins to question the lies she's been told about herself and others, and begins a friendship with Valentina.
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-- Conspiracy of blood & smoke[2015]., Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1933, eighteen-year-old Gretchen, niece of Adolph Hitler, reunites with her Jewish boyfriend when she leaves the safety of England to return to Germany to investigate a murder and expose the evil of the Nazi regime.
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[2015]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Historical FIC Blackman Edition: First edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Prisoner of Night and Fog Volume: book 2Summary Note: Gretchen Muller and her family were family friends of Adolph Hitler before he became a monster. After escaping Germany, Gretchen developed three rules for staying alive--blend in with her surroundings, never reveal her true identity, and never, under any circumstances, go back to Germany. However, when her new life is threatened, she must break rule three and risk everything to go back home.
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2015., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray Call No: Historical FIC Blankman Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
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-- Prisoner of night & fogÃ2014., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st pbk. ed., 2015. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
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[2014]., Balzer + Bray Call No: HISTORICAL F BLA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Prisoner of Night and Fog Volume: 1Summary Note: In 1930s Munich, the favorite niece of rising political leader Adolph Hitler is torn between duty and love after meeting a fearless and handsome young Jewish reporter.
